The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical TraditionWilliam Baker, Brian Vickers Bloomsbury Academic, 15.05.2005 - 480 Seiten The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and the late twentieth century the critical tradition reveals the tremendous vitality of the play to evoke emotion in the theatre and in the study. Since the middle of the twentieth century reactions to the drama have been influenced by the Nazi destruction of European Jewry. The first volume to document the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice includes an extensive introduction which charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the twenty first century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. Material by a variety of critics appears here for the first time since initial publication. Reactions are included from: Malone, Hazlitt, Jameson, Heine, Knight, Lewes, Halliwell-Phillips, Furnivall, Irving, Ruskin, Swinburne, Masefield, Gollancz and Quiller-Couch. |
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... comic figure Stoll drew on Henri Bergson's Le Rire : essai sur la signification du comique ( 1900 ) , which he had recently read . Bergson pointed out that the comic dramatist ' isolates his material , insulates it ' by pre- serving ' the ...
... comic effect ceases , and we then have a character purely generous , almost heroic and tragic ' , ' pathetic , one may add . This is true of the chief characters of Molière , unquestionably comic in effect when rightly played , whether ...
... comic spirit . In such comedy , as in most of Molière's and much of Shakespeare's , social prejudice , the social , or ( perhaps more accurately ) the society sense of what is comic prevails . Ideal equity plays no part , for though the ...
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GEORG LICHTENBERG on Macklins Shylock 1775 | 20 |
RICHARD HOLE an apology for Shylock 1796 | 22 |
AUGUST WILHELM VON SCHLEGEL one of Shakespeares most perfect works 1815 | 27 |
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